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liniște
silence /liˈniʃte/
noun#964 most common
Also: quiet, calm, peace of mind
Example sentences
În casă este liniște.
The house is quiet.
Am nevoie de liniște ca să citesc.
I need quiet to read.
Copiii au adormit și în sfârșit e liniște în casă.
The children fell asleep and finally the house is quiet.
După furtună, s-a lăsat o liniște ciudată peste sat.
After the storm, a strange stillness settled over the village.
Liniștea pădurii îl ajuta să se concentreze la scris.
The quiet of the forest helped him focus on his writing.
În mijlocul haosului cotidian, ea își găsea liniștea sufletească doar citind poezie la miezul nopții.
In the midst of daily chaos, she found her peace of mind only by reading poetry at midnight.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | liniște | liniști |
| Genitive | liniști | liniștilor |
| Accusative | liniște | liniști |
| Vocative | liniște | liniști |
Word family
liniștitcalm, quiet, peaceful
a liniștito calm, to quiet down
liniștitorsoothing, reassuring
nelinișteunease, restlessness
neliniștitrestless, uneasy
Etymology
Liniște was formed inside Romanian from the adjective lin, meaning calm or gentle, plus the suffix -iște, which marks a state or condition and is of Slavic origin (it also appears in words like porumbiște, a cornfield). Lin itself continues Latin lenis, meaning smooth or gentle. So liniște literally built up to mean something like 'a state of gentleness,' and it settled into the everyday sense of quiet or silence.
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